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Right, and onward - 18 Feb 2008
Feb. 19th, 2008 12:03 amPresident’s Day, yo. A day to honor the presidents of the United States gone before the current one, and to revile any of the ones that didn’t meet the standard. Feeling significantly better than I was when this weekend started, although I think I’ve gone through the whole cold gamut now. Pain in the throat, that. But feeling much better now.
All said, let’s play some news. We’ll start with the economy - Citigroup has forbade investors in one of its hedge funds from withdrawing their assets. The economy’s fine, of course, but we’re just going to hold on to your money and not let you get at it.
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is considering keeping fingerprints and biometric data on file and notifying employers if their workers have a brush with the law. So not only do you have to pass your background check for the job, you have to continually keep passing your background check every hour of every day. Big Brother is watching, citizen.
Beer laws are changing around the country, meaning more people can access their brews in quantities and strengths they desire. Although that does mean the retailers have to scramble around to take advantage of the new regulations.
In technology, programmers have built smarter mice to counter Comcast's bandwidth-throttling caps for BitTorrent. Additionally, Booksquare is wondering about the future of the publishing industry, suggesting that publishers have to really amp up the value-added services to retain authors. And Toshiba may be pulling the HD-DVD format, conceding this high-def round to Sony's Blu-Ray.
Behold! SCIENCE! (Science!) Scientists at the University of Michigan may have fired off the world's currently most intense laser beam. Which makes many a mad scientist glee. The more humanitarian among us are happy that a woman born with an extra set of kidneys wants to donate the extra pair.
And then, art - Coilhouse's Top Seven Icons of Alien Beauty. An excellent set of people. For a bit more art, and a little poking fun at Red Day, An Englishmen in Osaka tells a story of Red Day with chocolate.
Video gamers, take note - there's an actual global video gaming tournament going on that will culminate at the Olympic Games this year in China. Interesting, ya? Okay, perhaps not as interesting as secrets behind popular toys and games, but it’s interesting to me, so you get inflicted with it. Tabletop (and video) gamers have to be unhappy that Gen Con has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Last for tonight, a plea from Jeff Vandermeer - if you're going to talk steampunk, make sure there's steam power involved, and it's actually punk.
Okay, the real last item for tonight is that Texans can buy sex toys in their own state. Because we all know that sex sells, especially at the bottom, where everyone skips to anyway.
As said, g’night. Work tomorrow.
All said, let’s play some news. We’ll start with the economy - Citigroup has forbade investors in one of its hedge funds from withdrawing their assets. The economy’s fine, of course, but we’re just going to hold on to your money and not let you get at it.
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation is considering keeping fingerprints and biometric data on file and notifying employers if their workers have a brush with the law. So not only do you have to pass your background check for the job, you have to continually keep passing your background check every hour of every day. Big Brother is watching, citizen.
Beer laws are changing around the country, meaning more people can access their brews in quantities and strengths they desire. Although that does mean the retailers have to scramble around to take advantage of the new regulations.
In technology, programmers have built smarter mice to counter Comcast's bandwidth-throttling caps for BitTorrent. Additionally, Booksquare is wondering about the future of the publishing industry, suggesting that publishers have to really amp up the value-added services to retain authors. And Toshiba may be pulling the HD-DVD format, conceding this high-def round to Sony's Blu-Ray.
Behold! SCIENCE! (Science!) Scientists at the University of Michigan may have fired off the world's currently most intense laser beam. Which makes many a mad scientist glee. The more humanitarian among us are happy that a woman born with an extra set of kidneys wants to donate the extra pair.
And then, art - Coilhouse's Top Seven Icons of Alien Beauty. An excellent set of people. For a bit more art, and a little poking fun at Red Day, An Englishmen in Osaka tells a story of Red Day with chocolate.
Video gamers, take note - there's an actual global video gaming tournament going on that will culminate at the Olympic Games this year in China. Interesting, ya? Okay, perhaps not as interesting as secrets behind popular toys and games, but it’s interesting to me, so you get inflicted with it. Tabletop (and video) gamers have to be unhappy that Gen Con has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Last for tonight, a plea from Jeff Vandermeer - if you're going to talk steampunk, make sure there's steam power involved, and it's actually punk.
Okay, the real last item for tonight is that Texans can buy sex toys in their own state. Because we all know that sex sells, especially at the bottom, where everyone skips to anyway.
As said, g’night. Work tomorrow.
